Never let inexperience get in the way of ambition.*

[bending_sickle]

On the Spanish news yesterday, they were talking about how this is the Lost Generation because all us young folk starting off with our first job, or trying to find that first job, are royally screwed by the recession and how a large proportion of the unemployed are young people and how things'll suck for a good many more years and basically how I should just give up and die now. Yay.

I've looked through a hell of a lot of job sites and search engines and even things dedicated to Entry Level positions, and ever there they say things like, "Must have high school diploma or GED and 7 years experience," so where the fuck is the entry level?!? Gods, it's enough to make me cry at odd intervals, when I'm not staring glazed-eyed at the screen, reading and dismissing job advert after job advert.

30 Days of Doctor Who: Day 13 – Your Favorite Villain

The Master! Simm edition! No question at all :D He's crazy, he's evil, he's angsty, he's layered, he ships well with the Doctor ("Get out of the way.") and he's so much fun!

The ridiculously hilarious dubbed version of win :D

My favorite scene! (One of many!)

Coming Up
Day 14 – The Villain Who Scared You the Most
Day 15 – Favorite Who-Related Tumblr
Day 16 – Your Favorite Who-Related FanFic
Day 17 – A Piece of Who-Related FanArt
Day 18 – Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Day 19 – The Scene That Made Your Cry the Most
Day 20 – The Character Who Is Most Like You
Day 21 – Your Doctor Who OTP
Day 22 – A Who-Related Fan-Site
Day 23 – A Who-Related YouTube Video
Day 24 – Whatever Tickles Your Fancy
Day 25 – Favorite Who Actor
Day 26 – Favorite Who Actress
Day 27 – An Episode You Wish Hadn’t Been Made
Day 28 – An Episode Idea You Created Yourself
Day 29 – Who You Think Should Be the Next Doctor
Day 30 – Whatever Tickles Your Fancy

30 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 13 - A scene that makes you sad/cry

Sam dies and Dean rips my heart out. Seriously, I can't listen to Dean talk to his dying brother and not wibble.

Coming Up:
Day 14 - A scene that makes you happy
Day 15 - A scene that makes you angry
Day 16 - An episode that scared you
Day 17 - Your favorite SPN friendship
Day 18 - Your favorite SPN romance
Day 19 - Your favorite SPN song
Day 20 - Your favorite recap
Day 21 - Your favorite character entrance
Day 22 - Your favorite minor character
Day 23 - The character that is most like you
Day 24 - An episode you wish never happened
Day 25 - Something that you wish happened but didn’t
Day 26 - Your favorite SPN fanvid
Day 27 - Your favorite season intro episode
Day 28 - Your favorite season finale
Day 29 - Your favorite SPN fanfic
Day 30 - Anything SPN related?

40 Days of Supernatural Meme: Day 13 - Favorite episode for each season?

Season 1: Triple-tie between Dead in the Water, Home and Asylum
Season 2: Definitely What Is and What What Should Never Be followed closely by Crossroad Blues, Born Under a Bad Sign and Tall Tales
Season 3: Triple-tie between Bad Day at Black Rock, A Very Supernatural Christmas, and Mystery Spot
Season 4: Tie between Yellow Fever and The Rapture
Season 5: Definitely The End followed closely by The Song Remains the Same and Hammer of the Gods

Coming Up:
Day 14 - Favorite storyline within the overall storyarc?
Day 15 - What's your favorite smiling moment?
Day 16 - What's your favorite Supernatural weapon?
Day 17 - Bravest minor character?
Day 18 - What demon would you like to see again, bad or good?
Day 19 - Favorite brotherly moment?
Day 20 - Favorite gag reel snippet?
Day 21 - What kind of plot do you prefer: Old school or the Apocalypse Arc?
Day 22 - A moment you felt pissed and wanted to hit Sam and Dean for their decicions?
Day 23 - Your favourite Monster of the week?
Day 24 - Character from another show you'd most like to see guest on SPN
Day 25 - Favorite kiss/love/sex scene?
Day 26 - Show you'd most like Dean or Sam to guest star on?
Day 27 - Favourite writer/director?
Day 28 - what other supernatural creatures you would like to see Dean and Sam to deal with?
Day 29 - Would you rather prefer the idea of separate not so many hunters or large branched net of them existing just from the beginning of times developed in the show later?
Day 30 - What else might be added (developed or gifted) to the brothers skills of hunters if we speak about them as hereditary hunters from one of the most famous family of hunters in America?
Day 31 - Your ideal SPN ending?
Day 32 - Favorite death/body explotion (bad guy/zombie/demon)?
Day 33 - Favorite Dean eating moment?
Day 34 - Favorite hug?
Day 35 - Favorite Castiel scene? Favorite Bobby scene?
Day 36 - Favorite con?
Day 37 - Favorite Jared movie/other show?
Day 38 - Favorite Jensen movie/other show?
Day 39 - If you were a director who you would like to direct (Jared or Jensen) and what kind of movie?
Day 40 - What kind of movie/tv show would you like to see Jared and Jensen star in after SPN ends?

Links of the Day:
Supernatural:
leonidaslion's Beserker!Verse Fic Legend
turqouisetumult's Fic Four Times the Winchesters Visit Injured Castiel (And One Time They Don't)
mithrel's Doctor Who/Torchwood Crossover Strange Men in Bars (Gabriel/Jack Harkness)
devilsduplicity's Fanvid Totally Lucifer
_mused's Fanmix I Melted Wax To Fix My Wings
hellybongo's Animated Season 5 Mood Theme
Fanpop's Quotes that'd looks great as shirts
Angel/Buffy/SUpernatural Crossover Credits

Lost:
crashandburn's Picspam 6x16 What They Died For

Doctor Who:
atraphoenix's The Hitchhiker's Guide, Sarah Jane Adventures Crossover Fic The Hitchhiker's Guide to Surviving a Dalek Invasion

Human Target:
wptjeh's Comic

Random:
lienne's Online Game Recommendation
metaquotes' Discussion on the link between unicorns, dragons, and virgins
greygirlbeast's The New Weird in Music Videos, Part 2
Amazon's Stalking the Unicorn: A Fable of Tonight
Brobdingnagian Bards' Do Virgins Taste Better?


* Terry Josephson**
** Lies! All lies!

Comments

[seschat.livejournal.com]

Oh well, we can give up and die together, then! As I'm constantly being reminded, the only two things I can study to guarantee gainful employment sometime in the near future are either business studies or medicine; great! Who in their right mind studies languages nowadays, anyway, everyone can speak English, aye, blahblahblah nagnagnag grumblegrumble. Like I don't know!

Don't cry, love! It's not you, never you, and I can't understand how in the hell they haven't snatched you up yet. ♥

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

Well, at least you know that studying this or that will result in endless unemployment. I was all, "Lalala, I likes English! But that way only lies unemployment or worse, professorship. I know, Biology!" and then, "But I likes animal biology and thingies!" and from that it was just, "But not research! Or academia!" which leads to... Absolutely nothing. Biology that isn't on the small or chemical scale is, apparently, currently worthless. Damnit, I should've tried for something medical.

But here's a secret: there's a lot more things you can study that will result in employment than people tell you. Everybody focuses on the big subjects and they forget to tell you that there's things like forensics and fashion design. *sigh* Anywho, if you need any advice or insider info, I'm here for you, dear. (And English studies are totally awesome!)

[seschat.livejournal.com]

Actually, I'm in denial about the fact that, no matter what I decide to study, I probably will end up unemployed and poor. ;P I won't be going for English studies per se, but I'm thinking about trying out for Translation and Simultaneous/Conference Interpreting with English and Russian. As I'm being told, however, there's no money in that either. Meh. (Although the guy from Leipzig I'm emailing with and who's currently doing the Bachelor I'm interested in claims the interpreters in spe from Leipzig have an employment rate of 100%. Should I believe this?)

There's no need for Biologists, at all? What? *has a wtf moment* Damn them, damn them! WRONG'UNS, they are. D: (But, what's wrong with research? Research is fun! ;) Also, I think you would make a monumentally cool professor, aye.)

Thank you, love! I will hold you to that, you know. ♥

*snuggles you like whoa*

[bending-sickle.livejournal.com]

No money in translation? Nonesense! From what I've seen, there's good money to be had, and I'm guessing that interpretation is also a source of good wages. The whole industry is going through a massive boom now. However, most of the translation work I'm seeing is freelance (which means decent money but no fixed income) and it's good if you have back-up education in another field so you can be an "expert translator", which means you translate documents in your particular field, like law documents, or chemical reports, etc.

As for biology, most of the work I'm finding is either in the Microbiology, Pharmacology or Biochemistry realms, and related. Research is cool, but I'd rather industrial than academic, because academia is pretty much hell in that you're constantly under pressure to publish more and more and you have to have, like, a PhD and a couple post-doc's before you get to be an assistant professor, so it's a long, long (and more often than not, sorely paid) job.

♥! *wraps you up in snuggly arms*